Automorphisms of unitary block designs
Automorphisms of unitary block designs
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DOI:
10.1016/0021-8693(72)90070-1
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发表时间:
1972-03
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0.9
通讯作者:
Michael E. O'Nak
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作者:
Michael E. O'Nak
In this paper, we discuss the geometry and determine the automorphism group of the unital or unitary block design associated with the threedimensional unitary group.If V is a three-dimensional vector space over the field with q2 elements and b is a non degenerate Hermitian bilinear form on V, we let X denote the family of isotropic one-dimensional subs paces of V with respect to b. Then X has 1+ q3 points, and the three-dimensional projective unitary groups, PSU (3, q) and PGU (3, q), act on X as doubly-transitive permutation groups. There is a naturally arising family of subsets of X, d, forming a unitary block design on X. Each member of d is the set of isotropic one-dimensional subs paces contained in a fixed nonisotropic two-dimensional subspace of V. Our principal result is: